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A link to the past – or just the lifeline it needs?
EDGE
State of play
Stall of the mountain king • After two decades, and having traded text for graphics, Dwarf Fortress is coming of age
Sea change • How games such as Floodland and Terra Nil are engaging with the climate crisis
ARCADE WATCH • Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene
Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls
THIS MONTH ON EDGE • Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
DISPATCHES FEBRUARY
Trigger Happy
Alternate Reality
Resolution time
FORSPOKEN • Do magic, kill jacked-up beasts, and so on, and so on
LUNA ABYSS
MEWGENICS • Imperative claws: this tactical RPG could be a modern miaow-sterpiece
JETT: GIVEN TIME • Less talk, more freedom in a welcome return to The Far Shore
KING OF THE CASTLE
HADES 2
JUDAS
STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR
AFTER US
CRIME BOSS: ROCKAY CITY
EARTHBLADE
VIEWFINDER
DEATH STRANDING 2
ARMORED CORE VI: FIRES OF RUBICON
BANISHERS: GHOSTS OF NEW EDEN
VISION THING • Game developers will decide the fortunes of PSVR2. What do they make of Sony’s sophomore effort?
THE EDGE AWARDS
XBOX GAME OF THE YEAR
PLAYSTATION GAME OF THE YEAR
PC GAME OF THE YEAR
NINTENDO GAME OF THE YEAR
BEST VISUAL DESIGN
MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR
BEST PERFORMANCE
BEST AUDIO DESIGN
BEST SOUNDTRACK
BEST HARDWARE
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR
THE ALTERNATIVE EDGE AWARDS
BAYONETTA 3
WINDJAMMERS 2
GRAN TURISMO 7
POINPY
HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER
ROADWARDEN
NEON WHITE
PENTIMENT
ELDEN RING
IMMORTALITY
THE SECRET OF IMMORTALITY • Diving deep into the making of the year’s most captivating mystery (spoilers and all)
NAINITA DESAI, COMPOSER
FEAR • The blood, sweat and tears that went into Monolith’s horror-loaded shooter
ROLL7 • The wheels nearly came off, but now this UK dev is lining up its most ambitious trick yet
Hindsight is 2022
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Post Script • Off the grid: how tactics games are breaking free of the XCOM template
The Callisto Protocol
Post Script • In search of The Callisto Protocol’s sense of humour
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Post Script
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Need For Speed Unbound
Gungrave GORE
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me
Evil West
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
Swordship
Melatonin
Astral Chain • How PlatinumGames forged the link between all-out action and policework
Dying Light 2